Free Pride Glasgow is scheduled to take place in August, and bills itself as an alternative to the city’s main Pride event, which has allegedly become too commercialized.

“It was felt by the group within the Trans/Non Binary Caucus that some drag performance, particularly cis drag, hinges on the social view of gender and making it into a joke, however transgender individuals do not feel as though their gender identity is a joke,” organizers said in a statement.

According to the statement announcing the policy, some transsexuals found drag performances offensive because it “hinges on the social view of gender and making it into a joke.”

So now Kerry is disturbed by Iran? Apparently, Kerry wasn’t all that disturbed negotiating with a regime that is currently holding four Americans in captivity. Of course, when Major Garrett of CBS News dared to question President Obama about it, he admonished Garrett and told him he “should know better.”

The Department of State was caught red-handed, and they are dragging Hillary Clinton to court with them. According to a report by Politico, the State Department delayed responses to Associated Press concerning information about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's schedules and her top staffers for FOUR YEARS.

Naturally, this delay isn’t the State Department’s fault. As reported by Politico:

Justice Department lawyers representing State said a surge in FOIA requests caused large backlogs at the agency. They also said State is struggling with a wave of lawsuits since the disclosure in March that Clinton exclusively used a private email server during her service as secretary. In December, she returned 55,000 pages of emails at her former agency's request.

After ostensibly trying to separate global warming from national security concerns, Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley Monday jumped on the bandwagon of those claiming global warming created the conditions necessary for Islamic State to grow.

“One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation-state of Syria and the rise of ISIS was the effect of climate change and the mega-drought that affected that region, wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, created a humanitarian crisis that created the symptoms — or rather the conditions of extreme poverty — that has now led to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence,” O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland, told Bloomberg news in a question about foreign policy.

O’Malley’s comments echo those of the Obama administration and environmentalists who are trying to paint global warming as not just an environmental issue, but also a national security problem.

Our thoughts and prayers as a Nation are with the service members killed last week in Chattanooga. We honor their service. We offer our gratitude to the police officers and first responders who stopped the rampage and saved lives. We draw strength from yet another American community that has come together with an unmistakable message to those who would try and do us harm: We do not give in to fear. You cannot divide us. And you will not change our way of life.

The move comes after much criticism over the past five days, noting that the White House had lowered the flags for other shooting victims, including those who perished at Ft. Hood, and for a number of celebrities, including Whitney Houston.

Yet again, as a guest with Neil Cavuto on Fox Business, presidential hopeful and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee was asked about reforming Social Security in order to help it avoid insolvency. And yet again, he used a straw man argument to dodge the question.

Huckabee said that he is not interested in changing the Social Security system because "I don't think you can tell somebody who's worked for 51 years and had their check taken out involuntarily that 'Oh by the way, we lied to you, we stole from you, and we're going to stick it to you one more time.' I just think that's not something you push on people who have worked a lifetime and you blame them for government screwing up."

Huckabee's argument is a straw man designed to let him avoid a difficult discussion.

Nobody is proposing changing terms of Social Security for those in or even near retirement.

To say that he's against changing the deal for someone "who's worked for 51 years" is meaningless. Nobody is for that.

And we don't need to change the deal for those in or near retirement to help this federal Ponzi scheme survive at least another generation or two.

John Kasich, the Governor of Ohio, makes his presidential announcement today. He becomes the 16th person to join the Republican field and the 8th current or former governor.

Kasich is a fiscal policy expert. He has made a federal Balanced Budget Amendment a key talking point in his speeches and appearances so far, and was known for being a budget cutter while in Congress. His record in Ohio tells a very different story. Spending has risen rapidly during Kasich’s tenure in Columbus.

Data from the National Association of State Budget Officers illustrates the rapid growth general fund spending. From fiscal year 2012, Kasich’s first full fiscal year, to fiscal year 2015, general fund spending increased in Ohio by 18 percent. Nationally, state general fund spending increased by 12 percent during that period. Kasich’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2016 increased spending further. It included a year-over-year increase of 11 percent. The average governor proposed a spending increase of 3 percent from fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2016.

On Tuesday, Ohio Governor John Kasich announced that he's running for president.

In July 2015, it's a bit strange to say he's a little late to the race but that's the case. It's not going to be easy for him to make the top ten to be on the stage during the first debate -- which takes place in his state. And while he has $12 million raised so far, that puts him behind many of the other candidates and with only a tenth of Jeb Bush's war chest. But longshots have won in the past (not least our current president) and Kasich should, on paper, not be among the longest of longshots.

Let's start with the elephant in the room: Many conservatives won't forgive John Kasich for being among the handful of Republican governors who went along with Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. Kasich is also a moderate on immigration and has told social issues conservatives to "get over it" when it comes to campaigning against same-sex marriage.

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